Creative Time Summit live-stream at MICA

Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26, 2013, MICA hosted the Creative Time Summit live-stream at MICA. A scrumptious lunch was available both days.

The Creative Time Fifth Annual Summit provided meaningful opportunities for artists and arts professionals to explore new ideas, and expand their practices. This Summit provided a platform for consideration of the artistic practices, campaigns, and theories, that accompany the increasingly widespread belief that culture, for good or bad, is an ingredient in the making and re-making of cities. Artists, architects, planners, politicians, activists, and theorists from Colombia, Lebanon, the United States, Zimbabwe, and many other places presented their work, exploring the ways in which cultural production might address issues like gentrification, racialized urbanism, environmental catastrophe, and poverty. Keynote speakers included Lucy Lippard and Rebecca Solnit.

The live-stream was sponsored by MICA's MFA in Curatorial Practice, MFA in Community Arts, MA in Social Design, MA in Critical Studies, Sustainability and Social Practice Concentration, and Office of Community Engagement About the 2013 Creative Time Summit: Art, Place & Dislocation in the 21st CenturyFrom creativetime.org/summit: "The 2013 Creative Time Summit sets its sights on the fact that culture, for good or bad, is an active ingredient in the construction and shaping of the contemporary city. Tapping into widespread debate on this issue, this year’s Summit provides a global platform for consideration of the trials, tribulations, artistic practices, campaigns, theories, and practicalities that accompany this phenomenon. As the active role of culture in the city gains traction not only with artists but also with architects, city planners, philanthropists, and developers—from eye-popping monumental sculpture, to arts districts, to battles over eviction and squatting—this year’s Summit provides a timely opportunity to debate and consider a variety of artistic approaches to this contemporary condition."Full schedule of the Creative Time Summit here.

Sponsored by MICA's MFA in Curatorial Practice, MFA in Community Arts, MA in Social Design, MA in Critical Studies, Sustainability and Social Practice Concentration and the Office of Community Engagement.